Nature-based solutions resources
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International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure
This report sets out ten guiding principles that policymakers can follow to help integrate sustainability into infrastructure planning and delivery. They are focused on integrated approaches and systems-level interventions that governments can make to create an enabling environment for sustainable
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Farming With Biodiversity: Towards Nature-Positive Production At Scale
The upcoming UN Food Systems Summit provides a unique opportunity to accelerate the adoption of agroecological approaches and to ensure that its relevant principles can be transferred to all nature-positive production practices. Aligned with outcomes of the conferences of the UN Framework to Combat
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USING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM AIR POLLUTION
This guide summarises the current best practice for how green infrastructure can reduce public exposure to air pollution in the urban environment. It has been produced in consultation with the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (University of Birmingham), the Global Centre for Clean Air
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Urban street tree biodiversity and antidepressant prescriptions
Growing urbanisation is a threat to both mental health and biodiversity. Street trees are an important biodiversity component of urban greenspace, but little is known about their effects on mental health. Here, we analysed the association of street tree density and species richness with
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Farfalle in Tour
We propose a project that wants to be a collective idea where different realities confront each other, each with its own skills. It finds its originality in the subject "the butterfly" which stands out for its beauty, and to whose many varieties of colors and designs, turn attention,
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European Climate and Health Observatory Platform
The European Climate and Health Observatory aims to support Europe in preparing for and adapting to the impacts of climate change on human health by providing access to relevant information and tools. It also fosters information exchange and cooperation between relevant international, European,
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Physical Activity in Natural Settings Green and Blue Exercise
Exercise interactions with green and blue spaces offer low-cost, non-invasive solutions to public health challenges—particularly around mental health and obesity—and issues around environmental sustainability. Physical Activity in Natural Settings brings together multi-disciplinary, international
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The link between biodiversity loss and the increasing spread of zoonotic diseases
Over the last decades, a variety of fatal infectious diseases have had zoonotic origins. The linkages between hosts, vectors, parasites and pathogens can be influenced by a multitude of factors, such as biodiversity, wildlife and land use. High levels of biodiversity may be a potential source of
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Nature-based solutions and their socio-economic benefits for Europe’s recovery
This briefing provides an overview of the wide range of socio-economic benefits that nature-based solutions can achieve alongside addressing the intertwined climate change and biodiversity loss crises. It highlights the central role these solutions can play in achieving the EU’s 2030 commitments
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Building a resilient economy
Science shows us that humanity’s impacts on the planet are intensifying and environmental trends are heading in the wrong direction. In response, there have been calls for systemic interventions from prominent international agencies including the United Nations Environment Programme, the
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Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health
A growing body of research points to the beneficial effects that exposure to the natural world has on health, reducing stress and promoting healing. Now, policymakers, employers, and healthcare providers are increasingly considering the human need for nature in how they plan and operate. Discover
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Biodiversity and ecosystem services: the foundation for human health and well-being
Human beings are an integral and inseparable part of the natural world. Our existence and health ultimately depends on the integrity and functioning of ecosystems. This URBES factsheet presents research findings and policy recommendations which underline the value of biodiversity and ecosystem
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Guidelines for planning and monitoring corporate biodiversity performance
These guidelines offer an approach for developing a corporate-level biodiversity strategic plan, including measurable goals and objectives and a set of core linked indicators, that will allow companies to measure their biodiversity performance across their operations. The Guidelines can be used by
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EU CORDIS Research Results on Nature-based Solutions
A repository of EU funded project research results uploaded to CORDIS on nature-based solutions.
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New WCS Special Report Shows Links between Degradation of Ecological Integrity and Emerging Infectious Diseases
The report, which draws on detailed case studies, global analyses, modelling, and broad expert consensus, notes that the majority of emerging infectious disease threats are zoonotic, originate from wildlife, and often cause major social and economic impacts. Ecological degradation increases the
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Biodiversity and the economic response to COVID-19: Ensuring a green and resilient recovery
This Policy Brief focuses on the vital role of biodiversity for human life and the importance of integrating biodiversity considerations into the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. The Brief first outlines how biodiversity loss is a key driver of emerging infectious diseases and poses a variety of
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Manifesto for a Healthy Recovery from COVID-19: Prescriptions and Actionables for a Healthy and Green Recovery
The aim of this Manifesto is creating a healthier, fairer and greener world while investing to maintain and resuscitate the economy hit by the effects of COVID-19. Six WHO prescriptions, and a comprehensive set of key actionables, for achieving healthier environments is provided accordingly. Policy
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Conserving Nature in a time of crisis: Protected Areas and COVID-19
Many of the threats facing biodiversity and protected areas will be exacerbated during, and following, the Covid-19 outbreak. The health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected. An expanding agricultural frontier and human incursions into natural areas for logging, mining and other
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Compendium of Articles/Studies on NbS/environment and health
BlueHealth is a pan-European research initiative that investigated the links between urban blue spaces, climate and health. It combined interdisciplinary approaches to examine how wellbeing might be promoted through the development of blue infrastructure. In this link you will find BlueHealth
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